What's Happening
IMPACT: IMAGINING TOGETHER
Platform for Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation
Designing a university-based infrastructure for the field
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Call for Papers- Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice: Contributions of Arts and Culture
2020 Special Issue, International Journal of Transitional Justice
Deadline: July 1, 2019
Guest Editor: Cynthia Cohen
Newsletter
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Highlights
Call for Project Concepts: Keepers of the Earth Fund
Deadline: August 31
On Ajoka: An Interview and In Memoriam
By Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Post-graduate course on Arts and International Cooperation - Collaborating on Fragile Contexts and Processes of Peace Building
Zurich University of the Arts
Next course begins Jan. 2019
Register by: October 2018
PeaceCon 2018
October 24-26
Washington, DC
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy - Peacebuilding Newsletter
"Arts and Building Peace: The Basics and Envisioning the Future"
Essay by Cynthia Cohen
Peace in Progress Magazine
Interview with Lee Perlman about the
book “But Abu Ibrahim, We’re Family!”
Featured News from the Field Theme: "Arts and Social Change in Kenya: Past and Present"
Artist Protection Fund (AFP)
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The Brandeis minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CAST) presents:
Professor Cynthia Cohen Solves the World's Problems with Creativity
The Brandeis Hoot
Acting Together Documentary
About Us
The program in Peacebuilding and the Arts is directed by Dr. Cynthia Cohen, continuing work previously undertaken within the framework of ‘Creative Approaches to Coexistence and Reconciliation.' Our program focuses on the distinctive contributions of culture and the arts to the transformation of conflict. We collaborate with several departments and programs at Brandeis University, including MusicUnitesUS, PAX (Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies), the School of Creative Arts, and the Office of the Arts.
One current major initiative is "IMPACT: Imagining Together," which is designing a university-based infrastructure for the field, a platform for arts, culture, and conflict transformation, supported in large part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Another current major initiative is "A Way Out of No Way," a multi-media project that is documenting the forty-year practice of cultural work of the extraordinary musician, educator, activist and cultural worker, Jane Wilburn Sapp.
The "Acting Together" Project is undertaken in partnership with Theatre Without Borders and ReCAST, Inc.
Peacebuilding and the Arts is part of Brandeis University's International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. The Ethics Center also houses a program in international justice and sponsors an array of programs on the Brandeis campus.